5 Tips for Adding Humour to Your Presentation
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The document provides tips for incorporating humor into presentations to engage audiences effectively. It emphasizes the importance of relevance, professionalism, and timing in using humor, while also warning against off-topic jokes that can undermine credibility. Additionally, it encourages presenters to mix various humor techniques and understand audience dynamics for a successful delivery.
5 Tips for Adding Humour to Your Presentation
- 1. TIPs for adding humour to your presentation 5
- 5. and you don’t need to be to make it work a comedian
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- 7. People are taking time out to come and see you... ...and want something out of it.
- 11. cut it out immediately if you think something might, not work
- 12. Maintain your credibility make sure everyone’s on the same page
- 13. There are more of your audience than you, so missteps are hard to recover from
- 15. Professional presentations aren’t the place for gags and physical comedy;
- 17. Puns wordplay
- 18. Visual humour
- 19. steal jokes from anywhere else NEVER
- 20. and mix it up with different types of humour
- 21. and keep your audience on their toes. Avoid becoming PREDICTABLE
- 23. Your humour should be relevant... ...to your subject and audience.
- 24. Off-topic jokes cheapen your presentation and diminish your authority on a subject.and audience.
- 25. Industry ‘inside jokes’ generally go down well and demonstrate that you have a deep understanding of your field.
- 27. has its place in professional presentations, humour
- 28. and it’s important to know where its appropriate.
- 29. play it straight if reporting on financial targets or pitching a new project to the higher-ups. For example:
- 30. Be a good judge!
- 31. For more presentation tips, visit the Buffalo7 blog: buffalo7.co.uk